Season 2, Ep. 3: Tether

1 — Boyd is back at the Sheriff’s Station. In the bathroom, he inspects his arm searching for the worms under his skin. He sees nothing. Minutes later, Boyd is explaining to his son Ellis what happened to him in his journey with Sara. Ellis asks about this entering a tree and appearing someplace else thing. Ellis asks if he means as in teleportation. Boyd says he doesn’t know. Maybe. When he says it like that it sounds fucking crazy. Ellis asks about Sara’s whereabouts. Boyd doesn’t know. She said she was gonna be right behind him. He doesn’t know if she is still alive. Ellis tries to start from the beginning and asks what happened next after he teleported. Boyd did not disclose anything about the hole, Martin, or the tower. Boyd said he teleported back to the forest near the town. Ellis grew upset because he could smell his father was hiding something from him. Ellis said all he knows is that his dad went on a journey to find answers and find a way home, and now he is back with nothing to show for it.

Ellis explains that some people who make it in this place still hold on to that part of themselves, but last night things got bad. He thinks he saw that part of Fatima that she holds on to start to slip away. Boyd responds that Ellis must become that part of her she holds on to that this place can’t take away. That’s how they get through this until they get back home. This place won’t win.

Ellis says he will now go check on Kenny to see about those traps for animals. Boyd tells him to skip that and go straight to Fatima. Ellis thought while he was out there on that task he would bring some of those wild flowers she likes. Boyd smiles and lets him go after a joke. About replacing that wire ring doodad. He should do something about that. Ellis should be better than that. Both chuckle.

2 — At the clinic, Kristi finishes up the stitches on Jim’s face. Tabitha, Julie, and Ethan are near the bed. Jim tries to stand up, but Kristi holds him back to the pillow. Jim has 3 cracked ribs and probably a bruised lung. Kristi asks Tabatha if she is okay. Heard she had a pretty rough night. Ethan says her mom was on a quest with Victor.

Jim asks the kids to leave them alone for a bit. Tabitha says Donna will let them stay at the Colony House. Jim interrupts her. That’s not important right now. He wanted to tell her that he thought she was dead. She apologizes. Jim says he can’t lose Tabitha. They kiss.

Tabitha reveals what she found while digging the hole in the basement before the sinkhole opened up. The wiring is not connected to anything. The wiring was just dangling from the ceiling. Tabitha asks how they have electricity if the wiring is not connected to anything. Jim says they have so much to talk about, but changes the subject. Asks how the kids are. She will take them to the Diner to eat something. Jim says he loves her and she reciprocates. Both kiss again.

3 — At the bus, in front of the Diner, Donna scolds Randall because he is not listening to her. Randall says he is but tells her to fuck off. Donna points at his rifle suitcase and says that’s not gonna do anything against those monsters. All he will accomplish is to make people more nervous. Randall counters her argument with it is okay to start shooting at the bus wheel because that made people real fuckin’ calm.

Boyd approaches the bus area and throws a bunch of “whoa”s at all the cussing he is hearing. Randall asks who the fuck he is. He answers Boyd Stevens. The Sheriff. Randall thought the Asian guy, Kenny, was the sheriff. Donna responds they are just having a little disagreement about firearms. Boyd says residents do not carry guns. That’s the rule. Randall asks whose rules are that. Boyd replies: “Mine.”

Randall says the rules change and starts to head out with his rifle suitcase. Boyd stands on the way and says he has had a bad week and he is usually more patient. If Randall doesn’t like the rules. Great. You take your rifle with you and go live in the woods and make whatever rules he likes there. See how long he lasts. Now if he wants a roof under his head when those monsters come out, (Boyd shouts harder than usual and angry) then he should put the fucking rifle down and you listen to the lady. Randall smirks at Boyd’s cojones, and drops the rifle suitcase to the ground. Boyd says that’s a good choice.

Boyd picks up the rifle suitcase and tells the passengers, grabbing their bags from the bus’ cargo bay, that he will have time to talk and answer their questions, and they will get through this together.

4 — Inside the Diner, Ethan asks his mom, Tabitha, if they can go see Victor. She says they won’t. Victor has had a rough few days. Ethan says he hopes Victor is not mad at him. She wonders why he would be mad. Ethan and Jade were in Victor’s room. Jade was looking for clues about how to get home (back in the world). Ethan asks if they might be able to get their stuff back from the toppled house. Norman is still down there.

Tabitha stands up and asks Tian Chen Liu (Kenny’s mother) if she could allow her to look around the Diner’s storage room. All their belongings were in the house, now beneath the rubble. They no longer have any supplies or clothing. Tian says you come to stay in our house. Mothers help together.

5 — Outside the bus, Boyd and Donna talk. He wants to know how their supplies are doing. Donna says no good. The storm wiped half of their crops. They need to get serious about rations now that the bus people are here. Donna says the bus driver reported 25 passengers, but after the monsters killed a few, there are now 22 surviving passengers to feed. Donna scolds herself for shooting her shotgun at the bus wheel. Those who died ran away after that. Boyd cut her some slack. Some were going to die anyway. Lets focus on the ones that survived the arrival. Donna asks what happened to him during his journey in the forest.

6 — IN the woods, Kenny is inspecting the animal traps. Ellis is too busy cutting wildflowers. Kenny scolds Ellis and asks for his help to find the rod that keeps the trap armed. Ellis notices the attitude and tells Kenny that he understands that he is shaken up about Kristi and Mari. He doesn’t finish the thought and says nevermind. Suddenly, they hear music: “Wake up, little Susie, wake up♪”

They investigate. It is a cellphone’s wake-up alarm. They find the young woman who was at the Gas Station (Tom’s Bar). She has the animal rod stuck through her head against a tree. Kenny stops the alarm clock and tells Ellis they must bring her back to town to bury her. Kenny inspects the body. The rod went through her forehead and came to the other side impaling the tree. Her skull is pinned to the tree.

The young woman, Kelly, starts to breathe. Kenny and Ellis fall to the ground on their butts. Ellis asks Kenny to bring Kristi for medical attention. Kelly asks for help.

7 — Victor finds his bedroom upside down. He doesn’t know Jade and Ethan were here earlier. Clara sees his door open and comes in. She is glad he is alright. Victor asks who was in his bedroom. Something that was hidden beneath his bed is missing. Clara says she saw Jade and Ethan here the night before.

8 — In Kenny’s house, Jade is playing a violin. He is emotionally deep into his performance. Outside, Victor approaches the house and hears the violin. Victor knocks hard on the door. Jade stops playing the violin to check the door. Jade sees Victor. “Oh, you’re back. Holy shit. This is great. This is great.”

Victor points at the violin. “That’s mine. Give it back to me.” Jade says he thought he could play it for a little while longer. Victor shouts louder in anger. Jade returns the violin. Victor says that’s his bedroom. No one goes into his bedroom. Victor leaves back toward the Colony House. Jade grabs the notebook and storms after Victor and apologizes. Jade thought Victor was dead. He’s been searching for him all over the place. There is a symbol that he keeps seeing. There is this notebook that Kenny’s mom gave him. Some guy kept drawing the same symbol and there is a Polaroid photo. “Would you please just fucking stop! Look at this.”

Victor stops and turns his head to look at the notebook.

“There is gotta be a reason I’m seeing this everywhere. This guy must have seen it too. And look, right in the back. That’s you. Right? Maybe in some fucked up way this could be the key to getting the hell out of here. Don’t you want to go home?”

Victor looks meditating for a while then his mind trails away and snaps at Jade: “The violin is not yours. Stay away from me!”

9 — In the clinic, Mari is holding a rock painted with a heart and other stuff. EMT Kristi enters the room and tells Mari the paint got a little faded. Seems this is a memento she kept from before she found the fallen tree. The first time Kristi arrived at this place she carried it with her and held it when she slept. Sweaty palms, she guessed, faded the paint. Kristi compliments Mari’s blonde hair. Looks good on her. Kristi tries to get closer, but Mari rejects her. Mari says maybe she should stay with the bus passengers. People died last night and that’s the rock Mari painted for Kristi sitting there like if it was your nightstand at home and Kristi is just standing there like everything is just fine. Mari needs some time.

Kenny storms into the clinic shouting for Kristi. It’s an emergency. Kenny grabs her emergency kit backpack. Kristi says she has to go. Asks Mari to not move out of the clinic yet until they talk.

10 — In the forest, Ellis sits next to Kelly. She says it doesn’t hurt. They share their names. She asks where they are. He says they are in the woods not far from the town. She wonders why she is in the woods. Then she starts to remember.

They were in the bar. Some people knocked at the door. Then Brian opened the door. These people came inside the bar. Brian was screaming. The monsters dragged them out and made Kelly watch. The monsters said they wanted to play with her.

Kelly and Kenny arrive. Kristi introduces herself to Kelly and informs her that she will take a look at her. Kristi looks at the back of Kelly’s head and sees the rod exited the rear and impaled the tree behind. Kristi’s eyes signal it doesn’t look good for Kelly.

11 — In the clinic, Jim is alone on the bed. He tries to sit up. Then slowly stands up. He can see the exit sign above the door flickering. He pulls a chair and slowly drags his body along the door frame to climb up atop the chair. He reaches out at the Exit sign.

Tillie enters the clinic looking for Kristi, and finds Jim on the chair. Tillie says you are the guy that was rescued from the toppled house. You were with Brick, the young guy who was sitting across the aisle from her seat. Tillie announces she will leave him alone to resume what he was working on. Jim asks Tillie where were they heading to before they found the fallen tree on the road. She replied the racetrack. She was going to bet on the ponies. She’s been visiting racetracks all across the country.

Jim asks if it was a charter bus. She gives a silly answer. It was a bus like any other with wheels and a door, and tickets you had to buy. Jim asks what’s in the purse she is holding. She snaps back that he is asking a lot of questions. He says he has one more question — but as he lands off the chair, he drops to his knees and holds the chair for support. Tillie tries to help. Mari comes from Kristi’s bedroom to Tillie’s shout for help.

Mari helps Jim to sit on the chair. Jim’s manners aren’t great today. He asks who the hell is she. She replies her name is Marielle. A pediatric nurse. She goes away for an aspirin or something. Tillie stays with Jim and says can you imagine coming to this place and finding out that your fiancé is here? Jim is confused. Tillie says Kristi and Marielle. They are engaged. Jim’s face shows he is trying to understand. Possibly looking for a connection to what’s going on in this place.

12 — Elgin and Fatima walk outside the Colony House. Part of the radio tower is on the ground after the storm. The townsfolk are collecting the pieces and moving them away. Elgin asks Fatima how long she is been here. She replies she just had her first anniversary. Elgin is lost looking in the horizon. Fatima asks what’s wrong. Elgin asks if there is water nearby… like a lake or a pond nearby.

Fatima responds there is a place nearby they call the Brundles not far from here. Elgin wants to see it. At the Brundles, Elgin asks why they call it that way. She says it was named that way already when she arrived in the town. Fatima starts to ask how he knew about this– Elgin interrupts and responds: “I saw it.”

Fatima asks if Elgin is the one in the bus that had the dream. He confirms with a nod. Fatima says those dreams happen sometimes. People have all sorts of strange reactions to this place — she says. Dreams, nightmares, weird premonitions. But they don’t know why or what it means. Why it happens to some people and not to others. This one girl, Nadia, she used to say that it was like this place is calling out to us, but only some of us were listening closely enough to hear it.

13 — Kristi, Kenny, and Ellis stand a few yards from Kelly to consult. Kristi says if they were in the real world, this would normally be at least a 15-hour operation. Ellis says Kelly is literally talking sitting there. Kristi answers Kenny that Kelly could be here hours or days alive while her skull is impaled to the tree. She is not suffering right now. No pain. But Kristi doesn’t know how long that’s going to last.

Kenny says those monsters will be here in the night. Tellis says they need to get her out of the woods. Kristi says they don’t understand. It is even a miracle that Kelly is still alive. Kristi says she doesn’t have anything strong enough in her emergency kit for the pain it might cause to pull her out of the rod impaling her skull. They need to pull out the rod.

Ellis wonders if her possible death, pulling the rod out of her skull, would be peaceful. Kristi doesn’t know. Kenny provides an option. Without listening to what the option is, Kristi figures it out and says no. She is not having her last moments be with a gun to her head.

Kelly calls out Kristi. She can read in her expression that she is not okay. Kristi is sincere and confirms it. Kelly asks if she is going to die. Kristi says yes.

14 — Tabitha and Julie look through a bunch of clothes in the Barn’s storage room. Julie complains Ethan has spent the afternoon with Kenny’s mom checking out toys while she is here browsing through creepy clothes that belonged to people who might have died. Tabitha says this is no different than visiting a Thrift Store (secondhand stuff and antiques for sale).

As Tabitha and Julie leave the Barn and walk toward the road, Tabitha stops walking and sees two dead children standing on the road. Julie looks in the same direction her mother is, but she sees nothing there. She is concerned for her mom. Tabitha says she didn’t see anything. Let’s go home.

15 — Boyd sits on a rock to visit Abby at his wife’s graveyard. Boyd talks to the graveyard. He’s got news. There will be a marriage soon. Maybe you know that already. Boyd hesitates a while. Maybe none of this is real. Maybe you and Ellis are sitting at a hospital bed waiting for me to open my eyes up. How is it that an old man chained to the wall in a tower that is no longer there knows your name? How can that be real?

16 — In Kenny’s home, Tabitha and Julie argue. Julie insists on asking what happened outside the Barn. What did she see? Tabitha asks Julie to take all the clothes upstairs. Julie shouts louder and decisive: “Mom, talk to me! Do you know what I spent the whole night thinking about in that Diner? How I was gonna have to take care of Ethan by myself, ’cause I thought you were dead. And I sat there waiting for those monsters to find Dad and rip him apart. So don’t tell me you’re fine, and don’t tell me it’s nothing.”

Tabitha feels Julie’s pain and swallows deep. “Yes, I saw something. Something that wasn’t there. It’s not the first time that’s happened. After Thomas died, for months I could still hear him crying. Sometimes I would even go into a room, and I would see him there. Just for a second. It always felt so peaceful. Like he was letting me know he was okay.”

Julie asks if this is what just happened now. Did she see Thomas? Tabitha says no. This was different. Tabitha saw two children standing in the middle of the road staring at her. But this didn’t feel peaceful.

17 — In the woods, Kelly asks if Ellis is still there. Kristi is sitting next to Kelly. Ellis approaches and kneels before Kelly. She says hi to Kenny. She says they are so nice and ask for her phone. She wants to talk to her mother on the phone. Kristi says phones don’t work here, but she can use her phone to record a message and if they ever leave this place they can show it to her mom. Tell her I love her and that she’s sorry she didn’t give her mom a hug. She wanted one but I was mad when I left. They had this fight about Brian, and she didn’t hug her, so tell her that I’m sorry.

Kelly begins to scream. She feels the pain now. Kristi says the longer they wait the more she will suffer. Boyd was coming back from the graveyard when he heard the scream. She sees Kelly for the first time. Ellis says she is from the bus. The monsters left her like that. Boyd asks Kenny and Kristi to go back to town. Kristi refuses, but Boyd says he is not asking. Kristi won’t leave no matter what. Kristi holds Kelly’s hand. Boyd takes hold of the rod in Kelly’s forehead. Boyd pulls the rod with all his strength. The screams stop. Kelly’s hand falls from Kristi’s grasp.

Season 2, Ep. 1: Strangers in a Strange Land

1 — In the Diner, the jukebox plays the song: “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” by Bob Dylan.

Boyd walks along the road ringing the bell. Night is coming. His right hand is trembling due to his Parkinson’s Disease. As a consequence, the bell is frantically ringing faster at the pace of his hand tremors. A storm approaches and quickly rain overcomes Boyd. It is a nightmare. Boyd wakes up. He is trapped in the hole.

[Observation: The hand that has tremors is the left hand. In the dream, it is the right hand. Boyd wakes up in the hole. In Season 1, Ep. 10, he got to this hole because the Boy in White told Sara to survive the Storm by entering the Farway Tree. Sara helped Boyd get through the Farway Tree. Then he landed inside this hole. As I mentioned in the Season 1 summary, later in Season 3 this very scene where Boyd is trapped in the hole will be briefly revisited. In Season 3, there is a chicken and the egg situation where a person's present will interact with Boyd's present in the hole. The rope. However, in Season 3, for the viewer and the Season 3 person -- that's Boyd in the past.]

2 — Elgin is on the bus that arrives in Season 1, Ep. 10. This scene is minutes before the bus arrives in the Town. Elgin is listening to the same song: “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”

[Intriguing. Could this happen to other Townsfolk? They are listening to the music in their cars, and the jukebox plays it as well right before they find the fallen tree? Just a question to put out there, but this is the first time that the connection is made in the Show. I remember Julie had some sort of iPods in her ears. But I don't recall they revealed what song she was listening to. Now that I think about it, Boyd and Abby were listening to the Boat song before they found the fallen tree. Hmm...]

3 — It is raitninig. Bartender Tom exits the bar to empty his trash bucket on the side of his porch and sees the bus arrive in the town.

4. Something unique happens in the Series. Elgin yells at the bus driver to stop the bus. This means he knows what’s going to happen. Another passenger protests his request. Elgin insists they should turn around. They can’t be here. Randall locks Elgin with his arms to prevent him from reaching the bus driver. Elgin is desperately asking the bus driver to stop the bus. “You don’t understand. Bad things are gonna happen if–” Elgin vomits on Randall’s shirt. Everyone is disgusted.

The bus makes a stop in front of the Diner. The bus comes from Michigan.

5 — Outside the Colony House, Jade and two residents try to save as many CB Radio components as they can from the hard rain. Inside the Colony House, chaos. All lightbulbs are shortcircuiting and exploding. Clara’s right eye is injured. Kristi assists her. Clara has multiple glass fragments impaled around her eye.

6 — Jade carries the CB Radio up the stairs to enter the Colony House, but the wet stairs cause him to slide and fall to the ground. He curses. As he gathers himself and turns his body to stand up, he sees the bus in the town, down the hill.

7 — Inside the Colony House, Julie asks Donna why her father ran out in a hurry outside. Jim had told Donna to take care of his kids. Donna witnessed when the voice in the CB Radio called Jim by his full name and threatened his wife Tabitha shouldn’t have dug that hole in the basement of their house.

Donna asks Fatima to get the kids upstairs. As Fatima gathers Ethan off the sofa to take him upstairs, seconds later a very large lumber plank comes crashing through the window. It would have hit Ethan and possibly hit Fatima in the chest had they not left the area.

All around is chaos, and Donna yells out orders. Donna ignores all the shouts coming from Jade. He is fed up and yells louder at Donna. There is a bus parked outside the Diner. Donna stands there looking at Jade in disbelief.

8 — Jim reaches his house and finds the entire living room and furniture has sunk into the basement’s hole. Jim is not aware of the sinkhole. He screams Tabitha’s name and obtains no reply.

9 — Victor guides Tabitha through the tunnels beneath Matthews’s house, where the monsters sleep in the daytime. Tabitha asks where they are going. Victor replies she shouldn’t talk now. They are close. She is going to wake them up. She doesn’t know who he is talking about. Victor insists and tells her they are beneath the town and this is where the monsters sleep. The Boy in White showed him the way. Victor went through the Farway Tree and then he was beneath Tabitha’s house, awaiting for her arrival as the Boy in White asked him to do.

Tabitha finds a suitcase on the ground.

The suitcase has a sticker that contains the words: “New York Fair 1964” — with a planet Earth and two crossed rings. Tabitha opened the suitcase. It only contained a woman’s gown.

[This sticker might refer to a science fair. I checked the other stickers in a photo editor and rotated the upside down image. Some of the stickers in the suitcase I could see: Las Vegas and Texas. One of the stickers is severely washed out. I can only make "llowstone" which might refer to Yellowstone. "Come again soon." Yellowstone is a national park in the northwestern corner of the state of Wyoming, mostly. The park extends into Montana and Idaho, but mostly Wyoming. The park is known for its indigenous archeological sites, the geysers, and the caldera. A dormant giant super volcano. The park is also known for its fauna -- which includes the Bison. Some partial words can be seen in two stickers -- which I assume stand for Alaska and Arizona.

Whether coincidence or not, the Show is drawing parallels or clues. If this suitcase belongs to someone who went to a science fair in 1964, then there might be a relation to the townsfolk that arrived recently. Jade is not only a software programmer, he knows physics. He quoted Einstein and at least 3 other physicist names recently.]

10 — Donna asks everyone who is not hurt to secure the windows. She requests to bring the shotguns. Kenny protests about the need to bring shotguns. Donna confronts him. That bus might have a lot of people unaware of the shitstorm they landed on. They might react to the news they can’t leave. Boyd picked a hell of a time to go on a safari. If things go sideways, she tells Kenny he better step up. He is the Sheriff now.

11 — The bus passengers are outside the Diner in the rain. Randall announces the Diner doors are locked.

[The rain stops. There are 17 people outside the bus. A view of the back of the bus shows there is nobody else in the bus -- except Bakta (the bus driver), Mari (Kristi's fiancé, a pediatric nurse), Elgin, and this other young man named Brick. I counted 21 newcomers, but in Season 2, Episode 3 (00:15:20), Donna says the bus driver answered the bus had 25 passengers.]

The young guy, Brick, asks Elgin why he screamed like that earlier. Elgin says he had a bad dream about this place. He is interrupted by Randall who came with a guns-blazing attitude on Elgin for vomiting on his shirt earlier.

12 — Julie reaches her house. Ellis comes right behind her but he stops to talk to Bartender Tom who is walking toward the Diner. Based on the question, the Bartender has been in the town longer than Ellis. He asks if he ever seen something like this: a bus with 21 people.

[I don't know if there is a pattern or rule of this place. 14 people died at the Colony House in late Season 1. 21 people arrived now in the bus. What caught my attention is that Kristi's fiancé happens to be in this bus. That doesn't feel like a coincidence. The monsters know everyone's name in this place and know personal details somehow -- as revealed at the end of Season 1 when Trudy asked a monster how she knows her name. They know everyone's name.]

13 — Julie storms down the basement stairs and asks her father if he thinks her mom is down in the hole beneath the pile of wood and furniture. Jim asks her to go find help. He freezes in place, worried about her mom. Jim stops his effort to remove debris and hugs her. Jim tells Julie it is time for her to be strong and look for help. Her mom needs her.

14 — Julie reaches Ellis outside the Diner and says her mom is trapped in the basement. Bartender Tom offers to help Julie. Ellis can help the bus passengers. After all, Ellis arm is in a sling and won’t be of any help to Jim and Julie. Tom tells the bus passengers there is a woman trapped in the basement of that house that needs help. He wants volunteers. Of the 21 passengers, only Randall and Brick volunteer.

15 — Donna, Kenny, and 3 people arrive at the Diner in the Volkswagen van. Kenny will unlock the Diner door and bring all passengers inside. Donna will talk to the bus driver. Before Donna gets to her task, Ellis informs her they have some problems. Tabitha is trapped in the basement, and 3 guys are helping out.

Tom calls out to Jim and he is thankful to hear help is coming. However, Jim startles when he sees two strangers with Tom. He didn’t know a bus had stopped at the Diner. Tom asks if she has talked. Jim says no. Tom asks what the hell she was doing in the basement and this hole. Jim merely says she was digging a hole to find out where the electric wires came from. Tom asks an interesting question. What caused the hole that sunk the living room above them.

They begin to remove debris to search for Tabitha, but Jim warns them to make sure they aren’t removing something that is supporting something else or they might trigger another cave-in.

16 — Victor and Tabitha continue to slowly traverse the underground tunnels toward the exit. Off-screen, the Boy in White gave Victor instructions on how to reach the exit. Victor finds 3 rats chewing on what looks like a crow corpse. Tabitha panics and wants to go back to the sinkhole. Victor says no. The Boy in White said they should traverse the tunnels while the monsters slept. Both must be brave.

17 — Boyd yells. He asks if Sara is out there at the top of the hole. She said they would be safe inside this tree. He laughs. This doesn’t feel very safe to him. Suddenly, Boyd hears a man’s voice at the top of the hole. The man asks if he is real. Boyd responds he is real. Is the man above real? — Boyd asks. The man says he can help Boyd if he helps back. The voice asks Boyd to wait. A few seconds later, a rope is thrown down the hole for Boyd to climb.

[As mentioned earlier, the rope was not dropped by the man above. That man is chained to the wall. A person in Season 3 is revealed to be the one to throw the rope down the hole. That person doesn’t know that Boyd is down in the hole. The old man chained to the wall asked that person to throw the rope down the hole. Boyd did not see nor was aware there was another person up there. But from Boyd’s point of view that person would be from his future — which raises many questions about the Series, this place, and how this tower works. So far it is common knowledge that the Farway Trees can teleport you to different locations. The Tower and maybe the tunnels seem to have their own set of rules — but it is not common knowledge yet until Season 3, and not even I know if it is the tower itself. Another theory is the person who dropped the rope down the hole has the ability to dreamwalk through time while suffering seizures. That doesn’t explain how that person can physically throw a rope in a dreamform while at the same time that person’s body was tended by friends on the other end (being in two places at once in different time eras). At the time I am writing this, Season 3 is barely halfway broadcast on MGM — one episode per week. So I haven’t learned the rules of how this happened.]

18 — At the Colony House, Clara shares with Jade an interesting thought. She asks Jade if he thinks they made something angry. The way the storm came out of nowhere while they were broadcasting in the CB Radio and the way the lights exploded felt like they made something angry — she says.

Jade replies he only has one piece of paper left. So he is getting stoned. (Hmm, I see now what he was cutting down to small pieces. Weed. Rolls eyes.) Clara stands up and leaves. Jade tongues the paper to roll his weed, when suddenly he sees the symbol appear on the wall in front of him. A lucid waking vision.

[This symbol's meaning is revealed in Season 2. Jade will find the source. That's a core reveal to the series and to the place's ancient lore.]

Jade rotates his head to the left, after looking at the symbol. Now he looks at an old and dusty puppet on the next sofa. The puppet opens its mouth and screams. Jade is startled and he screams back (the asshole he is) and the vision vanishes. The puppet is no longer on the second sofa next to him. The symbol is no longer on the wall. Jade hasn’t even started to smoke his weed.

[Interesting. I didn't remember Jade saw this puppet in the lucid waking vision. Victor will search for this puppet in Season 3 to attempt to trigger a long-buried memory of his childhood. The puppet belonged to a person he met in his childhood before the massacre caused after two cars arrived in the town.]

19 — Tian Chen Liu (Kenny’s mother) is cleaning the lightbulb debris from the floor and sofas in the Colony House. Ethan gives her a dust pan he found to help. Ethan says there is a lot of broken glass. She asks him to be careful. Ethan asks if she thinks the people who ran away in a hurry are okay and return soon. Tian says he shouldn’t be afraid. She will protect him. He replies he is not afraid. Well, maybe a little. “Sometimes a quest can be scary. And when it gets close to the end, that’s when it gets really scary.” — he says.

Jade comes downstairs and says he guess they are going to sleep here in the Colony House tonight. Jade walks outside, sits by the porch, and lights up his weed to smoke. Ethan comes outside after him and annoys Jade. Ethan informs him that smoking is bad for him. Jade replies it is not [that type] of cigarette. Ethan asks what’s wrong with him.

Jade chuckles and replies: “Gee, I don’t know. Maybe I just spent the last week thinking we might actually get out of this shit box, only to see our entire plan come crashing down around us. Literally.” (asshole lol)

Ethan responds: “So? We try again. Maybe we can try something else. Whenever the Cromenockle failed, he always found–“

Jade: “What the fuck is a Cromenockle? No. I don’t care. You are friends with Victor, right? Do you know which room is his?”

20 — In the underground cave tunnels, Victor and Tabatha reach a cave room with a 1920-60s wheelchair, a 1920s-style bicycle for an age 8 girl or boy, a bird cage probably the same era, and the frame of a child’s cart. In the other image, I can see a baby stroll, a sewing dummy, two tall storage trunks on top of each other, and above them is the puppet,

There is also a very old TV with antenna and two more storage trunks. On top of one of them are 5 dusty books.

Victor discovers one of the monsters sleeping behind the old TV.

To the left, Victor finds one of the male monsters sleeping. Then points the flashlight to an old tower-style clock. It stopped working at 9:12.

Finally, Victor finds the puppet and recognizes it. Victor dropped the flashlight and ran scared — leaving Tabitha behind. She grabbed the flashlight from the ground and searched for Victor. He can no longer see where he is going in the dark. So he sits on the ground, scared. In a trance.

Tabitha asks Victor which way to the exit. He replies he doesn’t know. He got scared. This isn’t the way the Boy in White told him to go.

21 — Back at the Colony House, Jade is desperately looking through Victor’s furniture drawers searching for his crayon drawings. Ethan scolds Jade. He shouldn’t be here. Victor wouldn’t like that. Jade snaps at the boy and says Victor is likely dead. They are silent for a few seconds. Jade apologizes. He shouldn’t have said that. Ethan responds it is ok because he is wrong. Victor is alive. Wherever he is, he is doing his part. Jade asks: “His part of what?” Ethan responds: “The quest.” Jade is confused.

Ethan says: “That’s what this is. It’s a quest, and everyone has a part to play. Even you. Why do you care so much about Victor?”

Jade explains to Ethan that every time he sees something really weird, he sees this symbol.

Jade says he didn’t draw these symbols. It is a notebook he found in the Diner’s storage room. It’s a very old notebook and whoever the notebook belonged to kept drawing the same weird symbol he sees in his visions. The other night, he noticed two pages stuck together. Within, he found this photo of an old man. The child with the lunchbox in the edge of the Polaroid photo is Victor as a boy. Ethan doesn’t know what a Polaroid is.

Jade asks Ethan what does he see in the photo. Ethan notices the old guy is holding the same notebook with the symbols. Jade asks him to continue looking at the photo. What else? Ethan notices that’s Victor’s lunchbox. Jade tells him that the boy is Victor.

Ethan determines if that boy is Victor, then he might know what the symbol means. Now he understands why Jade is in Victor’s room and why he wants to talk to Victor.

Ethan says symbols are important. Especially on a quest. But Jade needs to figure out if they are good symbols or bad symbols. Jade is confused. What do bad symbols mean? Ethan says bad symbols might make people do bad things. Jade says he is a creepy little kid.

22 — Mari helps Elgin out of the bus and stands at the front of the bus to breathe. Donna is explaining to the bus driver, Bakta, what is going on in this town. Bakta asks if she is out of her mind. Donna warns the bus driver if these people leave on her bus when the sun goes down, they will all die. The bus driver is skeptical. She is done.

23 — In Matthews’s basement, Randall, Brick, Tom, and Jim continue to remove furniture and debris from the hole. Jim can now see there is a chamber underneath the hole. They startle when some more debris crashes down from the living room above them.

24 — At the front of the bus, Mari places Elgin’s arm around her neck and helps him walk toward the Diner. However, few steps away from the bus Elgin collapses into seizures. Mari screams for help. Kenny and Julie come to assist her.

[There is a pattern here. Whoever is luring people to find the fallen tree and the crows to arrive to this place is not bringing random people. Ethan's talk is not merely a child's imagination. Ethan talked to Jade about a quest and that everyone has a role to play. Think of archeotypes: caster, warrior, etc. So far three people have had seizures: Ethan, Sara, and now Elgin. Each of them seizure when voices talk to them as a method of communication. In Season 3, Julie also seizures. That's a bit of a spoiler. Other type of people have visions but no voices: Jade and Tabatha. However, later in Season 3, Elgin and Fatima have visions as well. Both see the same mummified spirit in a kimono dress. There are many people that are sensitive to visions, dreams, and such. None of them have died so far. They are part of whatever game or quest is going on in this place. You will learn some interesting stuff in Season 3. Especially, Tabatha and Julie.

As proof of concept, as Elgin's seizures continue merely a few feet away the Matthews's house collapses and traps Jim, Tom, Randall, and Brick.]

Ellis manages to find Randall and helps him out of the crumbled house. Kenny, Donna, and Julie are trying to find a way into the rubble to help the remaining survivors. Kristi and Kenny help Randall sit down nearby. Jim is stuck beneath debris. Tom as well. Brick is unconscious.

25 — In the underground cave tunnels, Tabitha and Victor find another chamber. This one has a strange monolithic tower made of Jenga-like positioned stones. A round ball is thrown by an unseen something. It rolls along the ground and topples the monolithic structure. This disturbs the sleeping monsters far inside the cave tunnels beyond.

The ball rolled from this hole. It seems like some kind of makeshift jail cell.

[Recap: So far we know this place has people-like monsters. We know Sara's voices that commanded her to kill Tobey and Ethan -- their deaths would have helped everyone and also the voices escape this place. Those voices are likely spirits. However, there is another voice that Sara heard that sounded different and allegedly that was Abby's spirit (Boyd's wife) helping them get away from that distant part of the forest. We also know that Boyd saw Abby's spirit in the webbed tree near the Lighthouse. So far between Season 1-2, we have knowledge about 6 different factions in this place: Monsters. Voices. Abby. Giant Spiders. Boy in White. Old guy chained to walls in a tower that doesn't exist in the present. Now we see the introduction of a 6th: this jail-like area in the cave tunnels is probably where the children spirits are trapped. The ball rolling from there means it was a child. Later, in Season 2 and 3, you will discover that Tabitha is able to see children spirits while she is awake. They want her help. Jade will not interact with the children spirits, but in one of his visions he will see their deaths. The symbol is tied to these children spirits. You will learn more soon in these summaries, when I get there.]

Victor finds another monster sleeping. This one likely is in a deep slumber, because the toppled monolith didn’t even bother it.

Tabitha approaches the jail-like cell and a girl spirit shows herself through the bars. Tabatha screams and pants. Victor scolds her. She shouldn’t have screamed. One of the monsters wakes up. As they walk away, Tabatha wonders where the water on the ground is coming from.

The monsters stand up and slowly walk after Tabatha and Victor. Both run away from the chamber in search of the exit.

26 — At the Matthews’s collapsed house, EMT Kristi finishes checking on Randall’s well-being and as she is putting away her tools inside her backpack, she crosses eyesight with Mari, her fiancé, across the road — aiding Elgin outside the Diner.

27 — At the tower ruins, Boyd climbs up the hole thanks to the rope thrown to help him escape.

28 — Tabitha and Victor find the exit and escape the underground tunnels where the monsters sleep during the daytime.

29 — Bakta, the bus driver, asks everyone to go inside the bus. The passengers protest. They are helping the people trapped beneath the house debris. She says they will alert rescue services in the next town. Donna warns that if all passengers don’t enter the Diner right now when the Sun comes down in a few minutes, everyone will die and that will be her fault. The bus driver ignores Donna. Donna walks to the Volkswagen van to grab her shotgun. She shoots the front wheel of the bus. Some people run away scared of Donna. Kenny shoots his gun in the air as well and asks everyone nearby to walk inside the Diner right now. Fatima runs after the people who ran away.

30 — Jim, trapped underneath debris in the basement, tells Julie they must leave them beneath the debris until the morning. To be strong.

31 — Boyd finally reaches the top of the long hole and lies on the ground to rest. The voice says he finally made it. That was such a long climb. Boyd is startled and points his gun. Boyd discovers an old man chained to the wall.

The old man asks if what Boyd is pointing at him is a gun. His eyesight is not what it used to be. The old man says it will make it easy then and asks Boyd to kill him.

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